Re: Distinguish column header from normal button

[Richard Stellingwerff <remenic gmail com>]

On 9/16/05, Todd Berman <tberman off net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 23:24 +0200, David Christian Berg wrote:
> > Therefore I'm certain it won't break anything. I personally use the
> > trick reminic mentioned since a long while with my eXperience theme.
> > Since I use this trick quite often (buttons in the panel look different
> > from buttons in dialogues etc....) I didn't bother so far. Still I
> > personally like the approach of reminic, because it allows you too theme
> > the ends of the header differently. This definitely would be an
> > improvement.
> >
> 
> You can already do that, if you look at the clearlooks source, they use
> the API to get the column information, as in, which column it is, is it
> the first, or middle, or last. So that information is already available
> and usable today.

So I take it this is going to stay unchanged?
Personally I'm absolutely not happy with using the API to get the
column information, since it doesn't work for too many apps. Evolution
being one of the most popular.

What's against using extended style parameters? Is it just not possible to do?

- Richard Stellingwerff.